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Reële impact van dit paradigma: For every instance in which President George W Bush stated that “there is no clash of civilizations,” or dismissed it as “a passing myth of history,” one can find him alluding to the need for ‘civilized people’ to unite against ‘rogue states’. In his speech to Congress on 19 September, 2001, for example, Bush outlined his vision for the ‘war on terror’ stating, “[t]his is civilization’s fight.” Whilst the US government may have seemingly sought to avoid the notion of a clash between ‘Islam’ and ‘the West’, the rhetoric of ‘civilizations’ still crept into its dialogue. (Michael Dunn) “Clash of Civilisations”

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Contact Zone Alternatief voor de “clash”? Mary Louise Pratt (1991) Neutrale definitie: “Social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today.”

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Pratts experiment “Virtually every student was having the experience of seeing the world described with him or her in it. Along with rage, incomprehension, and pain there were exhilarating moments of wonder and revelation, mutual understanding, and new wisdom--the joys of the contact zone. The sufferings and revelations were, at different moments to be sure, experienced by every student. No one was excluded, and no one was safe.” “Arts of the Contact Zone”

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Jouw experiment? We are looking for the pedagogical arts of the contact zone. These will include, we are sure, exercises in storytelling and in identifying with the ideas, interests, histories, and attitudes of others; […] ground rules for communication across lines of difference and hierarchy that go beyond politeness but maintain mutual respect; a systematic approach to the all important concept of cultural mediation.